Recently I have started donating to more charities. What I have really liked is that most of them support online donations now which I love.

I recently sponsored my sister in the breast cancer walk here in Edmonton online through a very well done site (Congrats to my step-sis and step-mom for doing a 60km walk over two days for this good cause btw). The site showed how much the person had raised towards their goal. A nice feature was that you could leave a message with your donation that appeared on the persons profile page which was nice. A little competitive feature was that you could optionally show how much you donated so I had to make sure I donated a non-cheapskate amount.

Steven Rockarts is looking for sponsors for the upcomming parkinsons walk. There site was also quite easy to donate on as well. The donation only took a few minutes and was so simple to do which is key in my books. It did not have all the bells and whistles of the cancer walk site but that is also a good thing as I want more of my donation to go to research than to website development of course.

I really applaud charities that have moved to online donations. It makes it way easier to donate (and get a tax receipt too). I also like it from the security perspective. If someone comes to your door asking for a sponsorship how do you really know that person is not just taking your money and not giving it to charity? So all in all I love charities for doing this and I hope to see more of it in the future.